The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1926, Page 4

‘ ‘ STS ap a meet a eT TE Page Four we THE DAILY WORKER if wee | Workers (Communist) Party | ‘fists LENIN DRIVE Opportu By ARNE SWABECK. Article IV. ITH the series of schemes of vari- ous kinds of so-called co-operation between capital and labor being con- stantly devised and perfected to de- Inde the workers, the problems of the active shop nuclei increase. But sim- Uultaneously the opportunities for ef- fective work on a mass scale became enhanced. One rule, which also holds good in endeavors to win the masses of work- ers, is that experience is the best teacher. The delusive attempts shrewdly worked out by the bosses will succeed only so long until the shred of hypocrisyis ‘blasted away and the inevitable struggle for class inter- ests comes to the surface. This is a task for our live shop nuclei. “Joint Works Committees”—Company Unions. One step further into the series of schemes mentioned are the so-called “joint works committees” established in many large factories and which are separated only one additional step from company unions. “Joint works committees,” supposed to manage af- fairs in the plant, are generally com- posed of an equal number of dele- gates representing the workers and the bosses. Sometimes the bosses ap point both sets of delegates and get the ones to their liking. Sometimes the former are elected by the work- ers in the shops. Seldom are these committees permitted to touch any real issues of working conditions; but if so, final decision always rests with the management. While company un- ions are outright tools of the bosses both institutions present a double problem to shop nuclei members for negative oppostion alone will not be sufficient. Both embrace workers di- rectly or indirectly and demand corre- sponding tactics. In fact even there it becomes necessary to get on the inside. During elections of the work- ers’ delegates to so-called “joint works committees” shop nuclei members must bring forward their own or pro- gressive candidates and bring forward a program corresponding with the needs of the workers in the shop, Of course, the program cannot be realiz- ed by that kind of works committees, but a more complete ‘exposure be- comes possible and the workers will learn that such committees cannot function in their behalf and also learn the need of creating real shop com- mittees representing only the work- The same may be true to a de- gree even of company unions. Past history has proven that when a few |live wires get active inside at the op- pertune moment, when the workers in general begin to understand the need of real organization; »can turn these company unions into instru- |ments for organization of working | class unions. | Workers’ Shop Committees, Born directly out of revolutionary upheavals or great struggles the shop committee system has attained parti- ers. pelerefefelefesereseferereresereserere MARCH OF THE WORKERS Song Book With Music, $1.00, Without Music, 25c. A smali number of copies of the song book are now obtainable in both sizes—with and without music. There is a great demand for them and those wanting them should send in their orders immediately with cash to the national office. Fill out and mail in the blank below: Workers (Communist) 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrades: Enclosed please find $.cccunwunuunnn LO uwunwe Copies of the March of the wit! Workers Song Book in the size without music. League, Name orecceeerseoe Address city State Hefelefelesefelerefefelesesesesererere, FITZGERALD BEAUTY SHOP Marcel Waving Hair Tinting Shampooing Facials Manicuring Scalp Treatments Open Evenings by Appointment. 15 E, Washington St. Low Suite 1314 Venetian Bldg. Rates can vearborn 4777. SPEA Jay Lovestone, Member Central E Benjamin Gitlow, recently released M. J. Olgin, prominent Communist Norman H. Tallentire, District Org Chairman: Large International Orchestra Young Pioneer Chorus /Auspices, Workers Party District cancelled our agreement. Saturday, January 23, 8. P. M. at TURNGEMEINDE HALL, Broad and Columbia Ave. Morris Yusem, District Organizer Young Workers League Pantomime of Lenin's Funeral by Workers’ Theater Alliance What the Party Must By GEORGE PAPCUN. E of the important tasks of the cular significance as a major instru- } | | Workers Party is certainly to help “@e building up of the youth move- ment in this country. The party mem- {bers would be making a big mistake | if they would leave the youth move- ment to shift for itself. | In section, sub-district, and :district | committees very often no reports are |given on what the youth is doing: and |if there is a report given all that is |done with it is a motion to accept. | That is all. No discussion on how the party is to help the league in its prob- | lems or how the party is to co-operate | with the league. This attitude reflects | itself in the lower units and among the | party membership. This must be com- batted by the higher units of the party and league. The idea that the league jis a bunch of office boys or girls good only for distributing leaflets and tak- jing collections at meetings must be combatted by all means, * It is high time that the party .com- |rades recognize that the league is the advance guard of the working class youth and the future leaderg of the party. The league must be given serious consideration and’ not be “| forced to fight for elbow room as has happened in the past. The iC, E..C. is now taking the right step in that direction. It is starting by doing it |nationally in all of its campaigns. | There must be an intensive education- | al campaign carried on to spread this | to the lower units. Party members must make special efforts to educate their children~so |they will become members of the Young Workers League. There are altogether too many members who are active in the party and in the unions }and their own children are not in the movement and are not even sympa thetic to the movement. If only our own party members would get ali ee TTT LLL ALLL LLL LLLCLLCoORCS LLL LLL Change in Philadelphia Lenin Memorial Meeting! The management of the Lulu Temple, engaged for the LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING Meeting will be held KERS: xecutive Committee Workers Party from jail journalist janizer Workers Party R. Baker Freiheit Singing Society ADMISSION 25 CENTS Three and Young Workers League. The Best Writer in France— HENRI BARBUSSE Author of “Under Fire,” “Chains,” nas “The Beyond” written @Specially for—and Ete. now running in READ THE NEXT INSTALMENT ON SATURDAY! Together with other splendid features. ‘HUOUAEEUOGUOOUODULGEUUEESSUOEUERUUOA UOTE AOAAAU UEDA EEE nities for Shop Nuclei Work ment in the hands of the workers in many European countries while here the practical experiences in this field have been very limited. So far reach- ing was the effect of the struggles of the shop committees thruout the Ger, man industries, both against the capi- talist system in general and against {the corrupt traitorous union offi- cials that the Ebert-Scheidemann gov- ernment legalized shop committees by law in an effort to clip their claws, While shop committees can by no means supplant trade unions, they will become a basis of additional strength to the workers in organized industries and ‘will prove an import- ant factor as a means of resistance of the workers in unorganized plants. Moreover, they may become a real instrument of union organization. Shop committees representing only the workers as against fake bosses so-called “shop or works committees” should be the slogan of shop nuclei members. Shop committees compos éd of delegates elected by the work ers directly within each department in an industrial plant, fully empowered to represent these workers in dealing with the management, empowered to call the workers to fight whenever necessary should be the reply to any encroachments upon wages and work- ing Conditions by the bosses. Due to the character of shop committees be- ing elected on the job, each delegate being directly responsible to the men in his department, and having daily contact they become ever responsive to the needs of the workers and they % will increase the confidence of the workers in their own ability to re- sist. The existence of a shop commit- tee in a given plant would be a ‘fac- tor of powerful warning to the boss- es. Shop nuclei members should take the initiative in organizing shop com- mittees, While during the course of so-called normal prosperity the re- sponse from the workers may be very small jt should nevertheless be propa- gandized at every opportunity. The method of their establishment and their functions should %e made clear. The propaganda shouldbe put into practice whenever the bosses make an offensive, cutting wages or diroetty deteriorating working ¢onditions. Na- turally such a step must be carried further to the complete’ organization of the unorganized. ! The absolute untramelled labor control by the bosses in many indus- tries as for instance the steel indus- try makes the approagh to organiza- tion of the workers a ,very difficult one. But recognizing, that Commun- ists must learn to overcome all such obstacles the establishment of sho} committees should provide an open ing wedge and a beginning of a solu tion of the problem. Organization of the unorganized, the means and meth- ods whereby to organize, should be the practical summing up of shop nu- clei activities and propaganda in con nection with the points mentioned above. Organization of the unorgan- ized is a constant problem facing all Communist Parties. . Do to Help the League their children to join the league, even this would be a great help to us. We find too many instances where party members send their children to nationalist youth organizations of their own language and neglect to send their children to the Pioneer groups or the Young Workers League. The slogan of the party must be “All Party Children Must Be Mem- bers of the Y. W. L. and the Pioneer Groups.” We find very many cases where the capitalist youth papers are found in the homes of party members but we do not find the Young Worker or the Young Comrade. The Young Worker and the Young Comrade in Every Party Member’s Home. Another point which deserves at- tention is that the party must not ab- sorb the league as fast as it has in the past especially as it did during the last period of time. The result of this rades were drawn entirely into party work and the league was left without functionaries. Party members laid down on the job and left to the Y. W. L. members to carry on responsible party work. This does not mean that the party must not draw on the league or that we must stop the league members from joining the party. There must be a conscientious policy pursued by the party that league members must not be taken into the party too fast, to the detri- ment of the league work. The party should be a rule that league mem- bers under 25 years of age who are in the party must devote the major part of their time to the league. This rule must be strictly adhered to. The party’ and league must see that it is enforced. Nuclei, fractions, committees, and other units of the league must be giv- en serious consideration by the party. League problems must not be slighted by the party but must be taken up seriously. The rule of mutual rep- resentation between party and league units must be strictly observed. This will help to make the league a mass organization of young workers in this country. The party units in the shops, mines, mills, and towns must elect capable comrades who wlil be responsible for the building of the league in their place of work or town. The slogan must be: Where There is a Party Unit; There Must Be a League Unit! Where a League Unit a Party Unit! This will not only strengthen the league but it will also strengthen ‘the party and both organizations will be on the road to becoming mass organ- ations of workers. Notes on Chicago Workers’ School Section No, 6 of Chicago, is on the job, The section committee has as- signed a member of the agitprop com- mittee to see that every nucleus in the section has one representative at least in the Workers’ Journalism class; and has decided that every | member of the party in Section No. 6 must attend at least one course, among the many offered by the school, Let's hear from the other sections. we The other groups of workers should send ina report on what they are do- ing to build up the school cla: 01 ‘and Thursda: Brotherhood Colle, Washington Sts. was that in some distriets many com: | and league must regulate that. There |, \EW COURSES ARE ADDED T0 WORKERS’ SCHOOL Registration to End in Few Weeks (Continued from Wednesday.) 8. English. Designed to meet the needs of those who wish to be able to read the English press, and speak on their union floor, or,at any other working class gathering. 9.. American Sociahand Labor His- tory. Fight for Shorter Hours; Social- ism and the Trade Unions; Labor and the State Power; Anarchism and Syn- dicalism. Brings the swbject down to the present day. ca 10 and 14. Elements f Communism (second term). Colofilal Liberation Movement, Industrialization’*of the East; Relations Between the Working Class and the Peasantry; Inner Con- tradictions of Capitalism; Theory of Revolution. @ 11, Aims and Purposes of the Young Workers League. Capitalism and the Youth; Comntinism and the Youth; Organization 6f the Young Workers; Tasks of the Young Workers League; its Organizational Form; Struggle Against Imperialism; Our International Organization. 12. History of Three Internation- als, Organization and work of the First International; Opportunism in the Second {nternational—the Great Betrayal; the Communist Interna- tional—Five Congresses—a World Party. 13. Trade Union Organization and Tactics. Types of early and modern unions, Structure. Policies of bureau- cracy and left wing contrasted. Or- ganization of left wing. Nature of work in the unions. Strikes, Tactics and strategy. 14, Historical Materialism, Cause and Purpose in the Social Sciences; Necessity and Free Will; Dialectic Materialism; Society; Equilibrium be- tween Society and Nature; Equil- ibrium Between the Blements of So- ciety; Disturbance and’ Readjustment of Social Equality; Classes and the Class Struggle. bs ss 2 # Registration Ends Feb, 1. Registration for classes ends Fe), 1 to allow arrangements;for classes to begin during the week,of Feb, 8. The fee to be paid on registering is one dollar for each course, except for Elements of Communism, and Aims and Purposes of the Young Workers League, for which the charge will be $1.50 (the student being supplied with severe! texts). it Send your name, courses selected, together with the registration fees, to Workers’ School, Wm, Simons, sec- retary, 19 South Lincoln St., or reg- ister there in person, We count on an early enrollment, All applicants are requested to register immediately, «8 Nuclei Active for School, Street Nucleus No, 12, Section 4, made a drive for school enrollments and secured two comrades for the English class, and one for historical materialism, Since the period of en- roliment is so short, this question should be taken at ry meeting of every nucleus. N: secretaries are requested to send in the names of the comrades enrolling, and the courses selected, ed Suggestion to all nifélei: Make the week of Jan, 26-Feb,“4 Lenin enroll pent for the Workers’ School. y) ‘ SPREADS OVER WHOLE NATION From ,Bostgn to Frisco Hustlers are Busy BOSTON, Jan, 2 —At a conference with The DAILY WORKER, Eastern Organizer L, S. Katterfield, attended hy about twenty of the most active Roston ,comrades. the Lenin drive fo: The DAILY WORKER was system: atically organized, In a contest to terminate on Feb ruary 15, one Boston builder will be brot to New York to attend a banquet in February, for every one hundred dollars’ worth of subs sent in up to sat date. : The conference endorsed~fully the plan instructing all Communist units in Boston to make The DAILY WORKER Lenin drive the first order of business at all meetings during this period and allotting the task for all members of getting or giving at least one sub during the campaign. E. fT. Zelms will act as treasurer for The DAILY WORKER committee appointed which includes Sarah Bal- ‘am, secretary, and Elsie Pultur, R. shohan, A. Winikur, Jim Lacey, city tgent, and other most active com rades, ON te Chicago Active in Drive. Lists have been sent to all branch. es of Chicago in which there are members who do not subscribe to The DAILY WGRKER together with a let. ter asking for action on this matter. In addition, nuclei are already sup- plying a requested list of twenty-five workers in shops to whom a short term sub is to be sent and for which payment and follow-up for renewal is to be made by the nucleus furnish- ing the names. During the past week, in addition to the distribution of thousands of copies at the stockyards nearly five thousand more copies have“been dis- tributed at the doors of Chicago cloth- ing- factories. Volunteers for this work are requested to immediately get in touch with the city DAILY WORKER agent at 19 S. Lincoln street, or call Seeley 3563. Frisco Sends First Subs. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 21—A batch of subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER have been sent by city agent, A. Segal, as the first lot of more to come in the Lenin drive. All nutlei have elected DAILY WORKER agents, Section Five Has Daily Worker House to House Campaign Six hundred homes were visited by Communist members of Chicago sec- tion five in a door to door distribu. tion of The DAILY WORKER ar- ranged on two day’s notice, Since all members could not be reached for this work to add further stimulus to the Lenin Drive, the sec- tion executive ruled that in addition all nuclei were to make immediate preparations for another door to door canvas in territory alloted to them. Street Nucleus No. 22, complying with the plan suggested, has made pre- varations for such a distribution on ts next meeting night, shortening its seeti to dispose of only most es- sential business. This plan has also been adopted by Street Nuclei Nos. 23 and 38 to be fol- lowed by all nuclei in the section, ‘SUNDAYING’ BEGINS IN PULLMAN WITH DISTRIBUTION OF DAILY “Sundaying” has begun in Chi- cago. Last Sunday 700 DAILY WORKERS were distributed in Pullman by twenty comrades under the direction of B. Shklar and 500 Lenin editions were distributed on the north side by street nucleus No. 22, Many other groups distributed the Lenin edition of The DAILY WORKER Sunday, over 10,000 copies being used this way in Dis- trict No. 8, Sufscriptions are coming in much bever and now that Hans Johnson has been made Section 5 DAILY WORKER agent we can expect a big increase in the subs from the north side. Look out Hans, Section 6 will soon have a section agent. You may have to rake the gold coast for subs to keep up with the north- west side. A regular DAILY WORKER agents’ meeting will be held Satur- day afternoon at 3 o'clock sharp at 19 S. Lincoln street. DAILY WORKER agents should be prepar- ed to make a report at this meeting Saturday, January 23, ——_—_—_ BOSTON! Meeting of The Daily Worker committee Satur- day, Jan. 23, 6 p. m. at Dudley St. Opera House, Roxbury, Mass. Every active worker can—and should attend to help the Lenin Drive. |” CONDUCTED - BY TH PROF. OTIS’ RESIGNATION SHOWS BOSSES’ MILITARY DOPE OF SECURITY LEAGUE NEW YORK CITY.—tThe resignation of Professor William Bradley Otis of City College’from the board of the National Security League has caused a little stir here. A short time ago the students of City College, by an over- whelming referendum vote, de- cided against the continuance of the compulsory military training in the college. It is stated that Professor Otis favored the stand taken by the students on the question of the military training. De Lancey Kountze, a direct- or, launched into a most stupid polemic against the views held @ by the professor and in fayor vt military training... On the question of the military training he said: “Military training is the greatest mental and physical training our young people can get.” The students of the City College in particular will agree that there is a familiar ring in these words. The “kindly” Professor Mezes seems to have made the same protestations to his students when they decided to rebel against the compulsory military training. Thé Communists are not opposed to physical culture and sports. In fact we take great pains to help in the evelopment of a mass working class sports’ movement. Neither do we throw our hands up in horror at the idea of learning military methods. But, we do object to having the capitalist military machine (which stretches from compulsory training in the schools to the arfhy and navy and whose primary function is to preserve capitalism) designated in the soft terms: “Mental and physical training.” Kountze, unintentionally, injects humor into the situation. He says: “All this talk about our being ‘militaristic’ because we are in favor of military training is utter nonsense.” prime riddle: When is military training not militaristic? Utter nonsense is correct,’ Mr, Kountze, but it does not come from our direction, The true character of the National Security League as an appendage for the militarist propaganda of Morgan and his like, was demonstrated in this press tussle, “The National Security League has always stood for preparedness ag one of its two cardinal principles,” said Mr. Kountze. Pre- paredness means having the big munition plants, U. S. Steel, etc., working overtime stocking up guns, munitions, earoplanes and other war parapher- nalia for the protection of the interests of the capitalists in China, Near East and at home by intervening in strikes, etc. To mask these things be- hind the “peaceful” phrases about “mental and physical” culture is one of the The gentleman asks us to solve a cardinal principles of the National Security League. Major Gtn. Robert Lee Bullard, president of the National Security League, refused to comment on the resignation, leaving it al Ito the directors, His outbursts in the Chicago Daily News some time ago against the Negro soldiers in the army and the hot reception it got in the labor press, seems to make him cautious about talking too openly on ticklish subjects, with the Young Workers (Communist ) League N. E. C. NOTES. Comrade S, Millgrom has arrived from New York to take his post as secretary of the sub-cémmittee for Jewish propa- ganda workk, All comrades having corre- spondence will please send it to the Chicago office instead of to the New York office as hitherto. It has be- come impera- tive to make for a steady source of income from the districts rather than the chaotic manner in which it has been raised up till now. First, comrades will have to pay dues more regularly and this will have to be turned over to the na- tional office more regularly. The same applies to literature, etc. Blanks have been sent out to every district on which to make their reports. These should be sent in immediately, State- ments were sent out on the old debts, Special committees should be elected in the districts and in every city to take care of this, For the future these committees should act as the regular financial apparatus. Detailed instruc- “ions as to the functions of the com- mittees will be sent out in a special letter. o-VrTe . The sub-campaign is not being pushed as much as it should. Only several hundreds subs have been re- turned and this is the end of the first month of the campaign. The com- rades should get on the job. Send in the amounts collected on the sales immediately, Organize committees of ten to thirty to sell the subs during the Lenin meetings. During the Len- in week alone we should bé able to sell several thousand subs. Every league speaker should point out that the support to Leninism must come in concrete form—this being the sub drive. Then our committee must go down the ailes and sell the cards. This will give much better results than personal soliciting alone. ie, Ja Missing Young Workers, Those comrades who have issues Nos. 9, 10,.15, 29 and 40 of the Young Worker are requested to send them to the National Office, 1113 W. Wash- ington street, Chicago. eee Milwaukee on Job. A good example of what can be done to boost the Young Worker was the recent, donation of $4 from the Milwaukee League. If the small leagues can do such things, the larger ones better watch for their laurels. Friendly Organizations, Attention! All labor organizations of Chicago are requested not to arrange any dates to conflict with the Polish workers’ celebration in Chicago on March 7, 1926, of the second anniversary of their fighting paper, Trybuna Robot- nicza, organ of the Workers (Com- munist) Party in the Polish language, YOUNG WORKERS OF OTHER LANDS “Blackjack Youth Protection Policy,” Cry Young Mili- tants to Prussian Minister BERLIN, Germany, Jan, 21. The youth sections of the A. D, G, B. ¢on- ducted a recruiting campaign among the German working youth from No- vember 7-22, The Y, C, I, G. partici- pated in this campaign by calling up- on the working youth to exterfd the A. D. G. B. recruiting campaign to in- clude the International Trade Union Week of the Y, C. I. For the culmination of the cam- paign the A, D. G. B, arranged a “mass meeting for youth protection” in the Berlin city hall, A parad demonstrating young workers appe: ed at this meeting with placards bear- ing the slogan: “Give us the Kassel youth protection demands, For Trade Come Ahead Into the Young Workers League tc, This prade of $00- 1000 youths attempted to enter the meeting hall but was prevented by the detectives who were engaged for the occasion by the A. D, G. B, to protect the mass meeting. Violent tactics were used by the police and several’ arrests were made, The social-democratic Prussian min- ister of the interior, Severing, was ta have spoken on the measures taken by the Prussian government for youth protection, During his speech such youthful interruptions rang out, as: Their youth protection policy was made with blackjacks, etc. One of the guards of the meeting attacked a young worker and a tumult resulted ate which bape majority of the meet- ing rose and sang the Internatio; After this act the meeting was pio] with demagogic attacks against the Communist Trade Union activity, sand poe Fy